On-demand, self-inserted home entertainment predicted "right around the millennium"
echoes
From: Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
- Early text: D.: "Digital editing technology, the control over byte and combination it affords the user, is going to revolutionize home entertainment right around the millennium. You’ll be able to watch a sampled Lucy show that’s set in your own hometown, for example, or with yourself as Ricky, or hell even as Lucy and Ricky, if you want" [d-3a:p10] [e-text]; cf. M.'s Kurzweil-250 fantasia — "It’s like holding music at gunpoint. You can make it do—or do to you—whatever you can think of. Whim is the only limit." [m-2b:p11]
- IJ echo: InterLace TelEntertainment's on-demand cartridge order (Hal on the fall of broadcast and the ad industry, scene 087, pp. 410-418) — IJ's millennium is literally the moment the prediction names; and the viewer-customized lethal appeal of the Entertainment (every viewer sees his own mother) is the dark completion of "with yourself as Ricky".
- Weight: prefiguration